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Islamism and Iran's Islamic Period Museum

journal contribution
posted on 2013-01-01, 00:00 authored by Ali MozaffariAli Mozaffari
The Islamic Period Museum of Iran was established, almost 16 years after the Islamic Revolution, as an addition to the previous National Museum building - the Iran Bastan, or Ancient Iran Museum - in 1996. By examining the components of state Islamism, the space of the museum and key exhibits, this paper reveals the analogous relationship between the museum and state ideology. That relationship suggests that the museum embodies fundamental ambiguities and inconsistencies inherent in Iranian state Islamism. Those ambiguities and inconsistencies are only concealed, in the museum as in the ideology, by employing traditionalist rhetoric with regard to religion and identity.

History

Journal

International journal of heritage studies

Volume

19

Issue

3

Pagination

259 - 269

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Location

Abingdon, Eng.

ISSN

1352-7258

eISSN

1470-3610

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

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2013, Taylor & Francis